We're on different roads here. I'm talking culture, you're talking politics. I'll agree that southern conservatives are pretty much like conservatives around the nation. But southern culture is pretty much unique. If I go to New York City or Los Angeles, I'll have a hard time finding a restaurant that serves grits or mustard based bbq. Back home in SC I can go into a gun shop and buy a handgun and walk out with it the same day. I can't do that in Los Angeles or New York. The stock car race in Los Angeles is always sold out, but those people in the stands aren't from LA. You can't even get the race on the radio in LA because no station will carry it. Back home I have my choice of stations. For me, the Confederate flag is a cultural symbol, not a political symbol.
But it is bizarre to me when "Southern culture" is put forward as some sort of "radical alternative." It's just a set of idiosyncracies, things we're comfortable with from having been reared this way. It's not necessarily "better" or "superior." Just comfortable.